Adolf Lindfors

{{Short description|Finnish wrestler (1879–1959)}}

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| birth_date = 8 February 1879

| birth_place = Porvoo, Finland

| death_date = 5 May 1959 (aged 80)

| death_place = Porvoo, Finland

| height = 177 cm

| weight = 96 kg

| sport = Greco-Roman wrestling

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| club = Porvoon Akilles

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{{MedalSport | Men's Greco-Roman wrestling }}

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{{MedalCompetition | Olympic Games }}

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{{MedalGold | 1920 Antwerp | Heavyweight }}

{{MedalCompetition | World Championships }}

{{MedalSilver | 1911 Helsinki | +83 kg }}

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Adolf Valentin "Adi" Lindfors (8 February 1879 – 5 May 1959) was a heavyweight Greco-Roman wrestler from Finland.{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/57935 |title=Adolf Lindfors |work=Olympedia |access-date=14 June 2021}} He competed at the 1912, where we became injured and had to withdraw, and 1920 Olympics, where he won a gold medal, aged 41.{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/li/adolf-lindfors-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417180315/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/li/adolf-lindfors-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2020-04-17 |title=Adolf Lindfors}}

Lindfors started seriously training in sports around 1900 and won Finnish titles in weightlifting in 1903–04 and in Greco-Roman wrestling in 1905, 1910, and 1913. He placed second at the 1911 World Championships. In 1902, he founded Porvoon Akilles and headed it from 1902 to 1912.